Through the unrelenting winter in the north of Japan, a small group of workers must brave unusual working conditions to bring to life a 2,000-year-old tradition known as sake. A cinematic documentary, The Birth of Sake is a visually immersive experience of an almost-secret world in which large sacrifices must be made for the survival of a time-honored brew.

Why did the Roman Empire, which dominated Europe and the Mediterranean for five centuries, inexorabl...

Ten years after an enormous open-pit gold mine began operations in Malartic, the hoped-for economic ...

In 1937, tens of thousands of Haitians and Dominicans of Haitian descent were exterminated by the Do...

In the puppet state of Manchukuo in the 1930s, four Communist party special agents, after returning ...

In the 1920s, former coal miner Harry Hoxsey claimed to have an herbal cure for cancer. Although sco...

In 1900, the eyes of the whole world are on Paris. The World's Fair welcomed 50 million amazed visit...

As Japan’s Tokugawa shogunate nears the end of its rule, Edo North Magistrate Toyama no Kinsan is ca...

Fleeing religious persecution, resilient Jewish immigrants arrive in Toronto and begin building affo...

The mysterious chi is presented as a force that can be produced by the master and defies all explana...

By mid-1945, Hitler is dead and the war has ended in Europe. Halfway around the world, however, the ...

A journey into the unique, often bizarre, world of Japanese cat culture. Cat themed cafes, bars, tem...

A paralysingly beautiful documentary with a global vision—an odyssey through landscape and time—that...

When indie comic character Pepe the Frog becomes an unwitting icon of hate, his creator, artist Matt...

An investigation of how Hollywood's fabled stories have deeply influenced how Americans feel about t...

This third opus will take us into the homes of some of the Adamant and Averroes & Rosa Parks’ protag...

A provocative and poetic exploration of how the British people have seen their own land through more...

Wet’suwet’en leaders unite in a battle against the Canadian government, corporations, and militarize...

El Pantera is a documentary film that chronicles the rise of Mexican UFC star Yair Rodriguez as he s...

Fox Rich, indomitable matriarch and modern-day abolitionist, strives to keep her family together whi...

Zatoichi is sworn to protect the life of a young girl and without any real allies finds himself in t...